Make A DIY Infographic Of What Makes You Awesome With Vizualize Me
Carmen’s Team Pick: Look how impressive the internet makes you!
Gaming OPEN THREAD: What Are You Playing Over the Holidaze?
What secondary pixelated world will you be occupying to avoid your respective untold holiday horrors this year?
Batwoman #4: Smart, Feminist and Very Very Lesbosexy
Batwoman #4 passes the Bechdel test! And it includes a ton of tastefully done lesbian sex! What is happening to mainstream comics, you guys?
Write Your Paper Faster With Kittens
Emily’s Team Pick: cats cats cats cats
Talking About Neurosexism Nirvana
Carolyn’s Team Pick: Cordelia Fine has condensed Delusions of Gender into about 45 minutes. Watch this video, expand your cultural science literacy.
Your Favorite Misanthropic Teen Daria As Cosplay
Daria in 3-D!
Nerdist = Obsession + Direction
“Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature. But we also tend to have a very active internal monologue (in some cases, dialog).”
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, A Boundless Fantasy World to Devour You Whole
“Skyrim is an example of a game that pushes the bounds of gaming as we know it, peeling back the surface layer to reveal just what video games can do as a medium for something more.”
What Are You Listening To? There’s a Drink for That.
Lizz’s Team Pick: Drinkify solves the greatest problem of all time by pairing drinks with musical artists.
Battleground Twitter: Women, Misogyny, and #MenCallMeThings
RT @sadydoyle: When we all speak up, it doesn’t sound like self-pity any more, and it’s not hurt fee-fees. It’s structural oppression. #mencallmethings
Top Ten Radiolab Episodes to Make You Smarter and Possibly Happier
“Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world.”
Super T&A: The Problem with Starfire, DC Comics’s Controversial Superheroine
DC’s new comic series, ‘Red Hood and the Outlaws,’ reboots a beloved female character as a one-dimensional buxom sex doll. What this means for gender in comics and the girls who looked up to her (including me).
Should You Upgrade? The 411 on the iPhone 4S
“You can probably see a line winding its way from an Apple store to where you’re standing.”
Remembering Steve Jobs: The Day Technology Went Dark
“I remember my first iPod; it had the four red illuminated buttons and it never left my side. I remember my first smartphone: it was an iPhone. I remember picking up an iPad with skepticism and setting it down and knowing that I didn’t just want one — I needed one.”
Steve Jobs Is Dead at 56
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs died earlier this evening. He was 56. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
“Adventure Time”‘s Animated Lesbian Subtext Is Too Hot for TV
Adventure Time lezzes it up in a behind the scenes video. The video gets taken down. Typical.
Why Facebook’s Biggest Change Ever Will Make You Freak Out (Maybe In A Good Way)
Facebook’s Big New Thing and why you’re going to totally love it or want to kill it with fire.
Google Queers Queries With Gaydar and Android’s Got “Is My Son Gay?”
Google’s got this unannounced “gaydar” feature and someone else has got this “is your son gay?” app and unfortunately, none of them work as well as your gut, ladies.
Why The Gay Squid Actually Isn’t
A species of deep-sea squid has been found to have a lot of gay sex. But calling it gay to demonstrate progress destroys actual progress! This is more exciting than is sounds.
I’m Batmannnn!!!
‘Superheroes Are For Girls, Too’ is an adorable tumblr that will give you hope for the future.